Author Biographies

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An
International Journal
Volume 5 | 2010
Issue 2 | Article 11
Author Biographies
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Contributors
Walter Delrio holds a PhD in anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires
and a master’s degree in history from the Universidad de Chile. He is a researcher
at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET); director
of the project Memories and Files of the Genocide: Subjugation and Incorporation of
Indigenous Peoples to the Nation-State, supported by the Universidad de Buenos
Aires; coordinator of the Researchers Net on Genocide and Indigenous Affairs; and a
member of GEAPRONA (Research Group on Aboriginality, Provinces and Nation),
headed by Dr. Claudia Briones. He also teaches social history at the University
of Rı́o Negro. He is the author of Memorias de expropiación. Sometimiento e incorporación indı́gena en la Patagonia (1872–1943) (Universidad Nacional de Quilmas
Editorial, 2005).
Santiago Garaño is an anthropologist and a PhD candidate in the Philosophy and
Literature School (FFyL) of the University of Buenos Aires; a National Council of
Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) PhD fellow at the Research Institute
on Cultural Diversity and Change Processes (IIDyPCa) of the National University of
Rı́o Negro; and a teaching assistant in the Humanities and Social Studies School of
the National University of Rı́o Negro. He is a member of the Political and Juridical
Anthropology Team (FFyL, UBA). He is the author of ‘‘ ‘Romper la vidriera, para
que se vea la trastienda.’ Sentidos, valores morales y prácticas de ‘resistencia’ entre
las presas polı́ticas de la cárcel de Villa Devoto durante la última dictadura militar
argentina (1976–1983)’’ (Historia Crı́tica, 2010; ‘‘Pabellones de la muerte: los lı́mites
difusos entre la represión legal y la clandestina’’ (Entrepasados, 2009); and ‘‘ Sentidos
y prácticas de la resistencia. Memorias de ex presas y presos polı́ticos durante la
última dictadura militar argentina (1976–1983)’’ (Historia, Antropologı́a y Fuentes
Orales, 2009). He is also the co-author (with Werner Pertot) of La otra juvenilia.
Militancia y represión en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (1971–1986) (Biblos,
2002) and Detenidos—Aparecidos. Presas y presos polı́ticos desde Trelew a la
dictadura (Biblos, 2007).
Karel Kovanda, since 2005 Deputy Director-General of External Relations in the
European Commission, Brussels, served for a number of years as a senior official of
the Czech Foreign Service. From 1993 to 1997 he headed the Czech representation
to the United Nations in New York, including (in 1994–1995) during his country’s
membership on the UN Security Council. In 1996 he served as Vice-President, and
in 1997 as President, of ECOSOC. He later served as the Czech Ambassador to
NATO (1998–2005). Mr. Kovanda was a leader of the Czech student movement in
the mid-1960s; following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he spent twenty
years in exile, largely in the United States. In 2010, he was awarded the Umurinzi
Campaign Against Genocide Medal.
Diana Lenton holds a PhD in anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
She is a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research
(CONICET); director of the project Indian Genocide, Diaspora and Ethnogenesis in
Argentine Nation-State Building, supported by the National Agency of Scientific and
Contributors
Technical Promotion; coordinating member of the Researchers Net on Genocide and
Indigenous Affairs; and a member of GEAPRONA (Research Group on Aboriginality,
Provinces and Nation), headed by Dr. Claudia Briones. A teacher at the National
Universities of Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero, and Córdoba, she is the author of
numerous articles, including ‘‘Aboriginalidad, memoria y lucha: el Malón de la Paz y
la génesis de las organizaciones de militancia indı́gena en Argentina.’’
Marcelo Musante is a sociologist and a graduate of the Universidad de Buenos
Aires. He is a member of the Researchers Net on Genocide and Indigenous Affairs; a
researcher with the project Memories and Files of the Genocide: Subjugation and
Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples to the Nation-State, supported by the Universidad
de Buenos Aires; and a teacher of community communication and cooperatives
technologies at Universidad John Kennedy and at a prison middle school in the province of Buenos Aires. He is the author of several articles, including ‘‘Napalpı́: Una
matanza negada.’’
Mariano Nagy is a historian and a graduate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He
is a member of the Researchers Net on Genocide and Indigenous Affairs; a researcher
with the project Memories and Files of the Genocide: Subjugation and Incorporation of
Indigenous Peoples to the Nation-State, supported by the Universidad de Buenos
Aires; and holder of the Human Rights Chair at the same university. He is the author
of several articles, including ‘‘ Dueños del pasado, excluidos del presente. Trayectorias
y memorias de los pueblos indı́genas de Buenos Aires.’’
Alexis Papazian is a historian and a graduate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
He is a member of the Researchers Net on Genocide and Indigenous Affairs; a
researcher with the project Memories and Files of the Genocide: Subjugation and
Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples to the Nation-State, supported by the Universidad
de Buenos Aires; director of the project The Armenian Genocide: Memories of the
Diaspora; and holder of the History Chair at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He
is the author of several articles, including ‘‘ Los elementos de continuidad en los
modos de realización simbólica entre el Genocidio Armenio y el conflicto de NagornoKarabagh.’’
Pilar Pérez is a historian and a graduate in anthropology from the Universidad de
Buenos Aires. She is a member of the Researchers Net on Genocide and Indigenous
Affairs; a researcher with the project Memories and Files of the Genocide: Subjugation and Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples to the Nation-State, supported by
the Universidad de Buenos Aires; a member of GEAPRONA (Research Group on
Aboriginality, Provinces and Nation), headed by Dr. Claudia Briones; and a teacher
of social history at the Universidad de Rı́o Negro. She is the author of many articles,
including ‘‘ Las policı́as fronterizas: mecanismos de control y espacialización en los
territorios nacionales del sur a principios del siglo XX.’’
Mario Ranalletti is an Argentinean historian and a professor in the Master’s and
Doctoral Program of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires.
He earned a PhD in history from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris in 2006.
His research concerns the origins and nature of the state terrorism applied in
Argentina during the last military government (1976–1983). His publications include
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‘‘Emigrar y regresar’’ (Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologı́a e Innovación Productiva,
2010); ‘‘Aux origines du terrorisme d’État en Argentine (1955–1976)’’ (Vingtième
siècle. Revue d’Histoire, 2010); ‘‘Contrainsurgencia, catolicismo intransigente y extremismo de derecha en la formación militar argentina. Influencias francesas en los
orı́genes del terrorismo de Estado (1955–1976)’’ in Violencia polı́tica y genocidio en
América latina, edited by Daniel Feierstein (Prometeo libros, 2009); and ‘‘La guerra
de Argelia y la Argentina. Influencia e inmigración francesa desde 1945’’ Anuario de
Estudios Americanos, 2005).
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